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Retention Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

, M.A., Gotes, M.A., McNeill, B., and Anderson-Rowland, M.R., “MEP Summer Bridge Program: A Model Curriculum Project,” Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 1999, 8 pages. Page 10.893.93. Schiavone, Peter, “Engineering Success,” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey4. “Where There’s A Will There’s an ‘A’,” © Better Grades Seminars, LLC, SL2276. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

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Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen

required to design a system that is morecomplex than PICit1.0. This way, they do experience the details of the low-level design inconjunction with high-level programming environment.Acknowledgement: Special thanks to Mr. Ali Emre Turgut (Ph.D. candidate in DoME, METU)for designing a BS2 prototyping board and letting ME220 students use these boards in class.Bibliography1. Rzevski G. (ed.), Mechatronics: Designing Intelligent Machines Volume 1: Perception, Cognition and Execution, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.2. Histand M.B., and Alciatore D.G., Introduction to Mechatronics and Measurement Systems, McGraw-Hill International Editions, 1999.3. Hargrove J. B., Cirriculum, Equipment And Student Projects Outcomes Or Mechatronics Education In The

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Somchan Vuthipadadon; Jie Li; Piyamart Kumsaikaew; Shantha Daniel; Patrick Patterson; John Jackman; K. Jo Min

of ELP. Page 10.669.5 Figure 4.1 Company description in ELP“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright ASEE 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”B. Problem Description: In this section, students, acting as the member of the consultingteam of the fictitious company, are informed of the problem they are going to solve. Twoplan scenarios are being considered to address the company’s needs, i.e., a National Planand an International Plan. Under each scenario, the global enterprise perspective isimportant. 1. National Plan: In this plan

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Social Responsibility & Professionalism

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2005 Annual Conference

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Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

committee wasillustrating the lack of overlap between existing and proposed courses.Table 1. ABET Criterion 3 outcomes addressed in existing introduction to engineering courses and the newsocietal context seminar. Existing Introduction to Engineering Courses New “Engineering Academy” Seminars (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data** (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs* (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (e) an ability

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Innovative Techniques

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2005 Annual Conference

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Sofia A. Pechorskaya; Alexandr M. Shvaiger; Charles Dolan

-view drawings of two polyhedrons. Page 10.953.7 2005-1175_Final.doca) b) Fig. 5. Surface of Revolution a) 3-D Model; b) multi-view drawinga) b) Page 10.953.8 Fig. 6. Intersection of a torus and a cone. a) 3-D Model; b) multi-view drawing 2005-1175_Final.docThe main methodological advantage of this section is the opportunity to model evidently inthree-dimensional space geometrical problem conditions and study the results of modeling.Independently and multi-variantly

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Integrating H&SS in Engineering II

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2005 Annual Conference

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W. Carlson

-October 1919; reprinted as MyInventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, ed. B. Johnston (Williston, Vt.: HartBrothers, 1994), 57.5 NT, My Inventions, 61.6NT testimony in Complaint's Record on Final Hearing, Volume 1-Testimony,Westinghouse vs. Mutual Life Insurance Co. and H. C. Mandeville [1903], Item NT 77,Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 187-8, 195, 306.. Hereafter cited as NTTestimony.7 The station was completed in 1883 and at some point in the nineteenth century, thestation was lit by 2000 electric lamps. See Julius Euting, A Descriptive Guide to the Cityof Strassburg and its Cathedral, 7 ed. (Strassburg: Karl J. Trübner, n.d.), pp. 84-5.8 In reviewing biographies of Emperor William I, I found mention of only one visit by

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NEW Lab Experiments in Materials Science

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2005 Annual Conference

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Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

AC 2005-226: DESIGN, RAPID PROTOTYPE, CAST, AND TEST AN ALUMINUMLINKRichard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar Page 10.414.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2005 Design, Rapid Prototype, Cast, and Test an Aluminum Link Richard B. Griffin and Terry Creasy Mechanical Engineering- 3123 Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3123Abstract Integrated design, rapid prototyping, manufacturing processes, and testing has beenaccomplished in a junior materials and manufacturing class. Students are given a design space

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Pamela Suett

/htdocs/210/gsig/eu-guides/gcr-814/machinery-gcr-01-814.htm ]7 European Union Directive 98/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 onthe approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to machinery [ONLINEhttp://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/mechan_equipment/machinery/welcdir.htm]8 Gillen, B 2002 A Standards Education: Beyond the Skills, [ONLINE http://www.ses-standards.org/library/02proceedings/gillen.pdf ]9 EU Draft Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing aframework for Eco-Design of End Use Equipment [ ONLINEhttp://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/electr_equipment/eee/workdoc09102002.pdf ]10 Sun Microsystems The Eco-standard Design: The need for a rational

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

City, Utah, June 2004.2 Yuhasz, A.G., M.W. Ohland, and E.A. Stephan, “The Benefit of Using Real-Time Sensors in the EngineeringClassroom: Experimental Design Considerations” submitted to Proc. Amer. Soc. Eng. Ed., Salt Lake City, Utah,June 2004.3 Ohland, M.W., and E.A. Stephan, “Using Laptops in Engineering Courses for Real-Time Data Collection andAnalysis,” in Enhancing Learning Using Laptops in the Classroom, Linda B. Nilson and Barbara E. Weaver,editors. New Directions in Teaching and Learning series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, in press, Forthcoming Spring(April) 2005.4 Steif, P.S., and A. Dollár, “A New Approach to Teaching and Learning Statics,” Proceedings, 2003 AmericanSociety of Engineering Education National Conference.5 Reynolds

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IE/EM Skills in Real World Concepts

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2005 Annual Conference

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Lisa McNair; Garlie A. Forehand; Judith Norback

engineeringdisciplines. Page 10.728.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationVIII. Bibliography1 “2000-2001 Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs,” Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology,Baltimore, 2000.2 Norback, Judith Shaul; Garlie A. Forehand; Stephanie A. Jernigan; Alexander B. Quinn, “Teaching WorkplaceCommunication in Senior Design.” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering EducationConference, June, 2002.3 Goodall, Henry L.; Goodall, Susan; Communicating in

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ABET Issues and Capstone Design

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2005 Annual Conference

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Milton Bryant; Paul Biney

ENGINEERING PROGRAM OUTCOMES Students who graduate with a BSME degree from the Mechanical Engineering program will have (a) an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams. (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems. (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. (g) an ability to communicate effectively. (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact

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Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

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2005 Annual Conference

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Mark Jackson; Jesse Petway; Doreen Lawrence; Patrick Dessert; Barbara Oakley

% 3.7% 4.2% 3.7% Page 10.1117.6 Education :total Average Spent $ 772.67 $ 766.34 $ 847.23 $ 777.32 Spending Index 77% 76% 84% 77%“Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Appendix B: Typical Kumon worksheet at Level A Page 10.1117.7“Proceedings of the

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

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David Ferruzza

: see SLED RUN – Figure 1: • At point A, sled has speed vA; • A to B, level run of length LAB; • B to C, an arc with a radius of R1 and included angle φBC ; • C to D, straight downhill slope with length LCD at angle −Ө (magnitude of Ө must be the same as magnitude φBC); • D to E to F, an arc with a radius of R1 and included angle φBC from D to E (E is at the Page 10.1120.4 bottom of the DEF arc) and included angle φBC from E to F; “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

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Stephen Thompson; Jed Lyons

/99pap/fet99592.htm.21. Fournier, J. E. and S.S. Wineburg. 1997. Picturing the past: Gender differences in the depiction of historical figures. American Journal of Education, 105(2), 160-185.22. Chambers, D.W. 1983. Stereotype images of the scientist: The draw-a-scientists test. Science Education, 67(2), 255-265.23. Huber, R.A. and G.A. Burton. 1995. What do students think scientist look like? School Science and Mathematics, 95(7), 371-376.24. Matthew, B. 1996. Drawing scientists. Gender and Education, 8(12), 231-243.25. Sumrall, W. J. 1995. Reasons for perceived images of scientists by race and gender of students in grades 1-7. School Science and Mathematics, 95(2), 83-90.26. Thompson, S. and Lyons, J. 2004. Elementary students

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Design Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

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Thomas Bilodeau

to as the “ B-dot probe “ ) under both shieldedand unshielded conditions, are discussed in this paper . In order to illustrate the nature ofthe experimental data and analysis that is entailed by MaFEL , several graphs of magnetic fieldintensity that were measured with the B dot probe along the axis of a wire loop carrying an ACcurrent of variable frequency are presented and their significance is discussed . In addition, theeffects of enclosing the B-dot probe inside a cylindrical shield made of high permeabilitymetal on the probe’s detection sensitivity are noted in order to illustrate the fundamentalconcepts of shielding low frequency magnetic fields . In closing, some potential industrial applications where the students can apply

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger; Richard Felder

factor analysis reveals that some items are not well loaded onto any factors in their scale.These items are identified in bold italics in Table 6. Items 42 and 30 of the Sensing-Intuitivescale, listed below, ask students to choose one of two activities in a given context. Neither 42 When I am doing long calculations, (a) I tend to repeat all my steps and check my work carefully. (b) I find checking my work tiresome and have to force myself to do it. 30 When I have to perform a task, I prefer to (a) master one way of doing it. (b) come up with new ways of doing it.of these items appears to relate strongly to the concrete vs. abstract nature of the items that arewell loaded on

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Improving Mechanics of Materials

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2005 Annual Conference

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Ing-Chang Jong

. Readers may refer to textbooks by Beer and Johnston,1-2 Huang,3 Jong and Rogers,4 etc.,where virtual displacements inconsistent with constraints at supports are strategically chosen tosolve equilibrium problems of frames, which are fully constrained at supports.This paper is aimed at doing the following: (a) sharpen the concept of work for students, (b)compare head to head the virtual work method with the conventional method using an example,(c) use displacement center5 and just algebra and geometry as the prerequisite mathematics tocompute virtual displacements, (d ) propose three major steps in the virtual work method, (e)propose a guiding strategy for choosing the virtual displacement that is the best for solving onespecified unknown, and ( f

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Improving Statics and Dynamics

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2005 Annual Conference

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Jill Lane; Don Evans; Gary Gray; Francesco Costanzo; Phillip Cornwell; Brian Self

of dynamics were asked to “describethe concepts in 2D rigid body dynamics that your students find difficult to understand”.∗They then provided a “brief description of common misunderstandings your students haveabout the concept”. After the responses were collated and similar themes combined by theDCI team, the experts were asked to examine twenty-four different concepts. They ratedeach concept on (a) how important it is, and (b) whether or not their students understandthe concept.The twenty-four resulting concepts were then ranked according to importance and difficulty.As the goal was to design a thirty question test (similar to the FCI), ten concepts wereselected so that each concept could be tested more than once. One of the top eleven

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nickles

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationCourse and SubjectsData for this study comes from seven courses, all taught in the same department, which aredescribed in Table 1. Courses A-C are the same course taught by the same instructor in differentsemesters. Courses D-F are different courses taught by the same instructor. Course G is thesame course as E though taught by a third instructor in a different term. Table 1 also shows howmany students of the total in each course consented to allow their data to be used for researchpurposes. Courses A and B are the courses examined in the previous study.3Table 1: Description of courses examined Course Description Instructor Term Consenting

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheldon Jeter

imprecision. Ultimately this Uncertainty A will be combinedwith a user supplied value for the Uncertainty B or range of possible bias according to thegeneral formula for combining uncertainties, U C = U A2 + U B2 (8)To complete the uncertainty analysis, the form will also compute and plot the UncertaintyA of the data by the familiar formula, U A, MODEL = k c SEE (9)Here the SEE is the usual Standard Error of Estimate, which is essentially the square rootof averaged squared deviation of the data from the model. The SEE is obviouslyanalogous to the Sample Standard Deviation (SSD) for a simple sample

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Issues in Digital Signal Processing

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2005 Annual Conference

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Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

Session 3420 Caller ID: A Project to Reinforce an Understanding of DSP-based Demodulation Thad B. Welch Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering U.S. Naval Academy, MD Cameron H. G. Wright Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wyoming, WY Michael G. Morrow Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Useful Assessment in Materials Education

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2005 Annual Conference

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William Jordan; Henry Cardenas; Chad O'Neal

Using a Materials Concept Inventory to Assess an Introductory Materials Class: Potential and Problems William Jordan, Henry Cardenas, and Chad B. O’Neal College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA 71272ABSTRACTIn every engineering course there is a concern about how much the students are actuallylearning. The physics community has addressed this through the development of anassessment instrument called the Force Concept Inventory. More recently this has beenexpanded to the development of Engineering Concept Inventories. Universities affiliatedwith the N.S.F. sponsored Foundation Coalition

Conference Session

Measuring Perceptions of Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ochs

June 2005 ASEE Conference Session 1410 Implementing Technical Entrepreneurship as a Required Junior Course for all Students at Northwestern Lehigh High SchoolBryan Klass Leah ChristmanFutures II Instructor Instructional Technology FacilitatorNorthwestern Lehigh High School Northwestern Lehigh School DistrictJohn B OchsProfessor and Director of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) ProgramLehigh University AbstractFutures II is a multidisciplinary, standards based, technology enabled graduationrequirement for all eleventh graders at Northwestern Lehigh High

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Nelson; Barbara Olds; Monica Geist; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

table is a convenient way to display data that allows two variables tobe compared with each other. In cross-tabulation tables, we can see frequency counts of howmany students selected each answer for the two questions. By observing the individual entries ineach row and column, we can determine how many students answered both questions correctly.More importantly, when students answer both questions incorrectly using wrong answers that arerelated conceptually, we have obtained evidence of a misconception which carries across thecontext of both questions. For example, the results in Table II indicate a strong correlation forthe correct answer pair (c,f) as well as two sets of incorrect responses (a,e) and (b,g); theincorrect response pairs can

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Design and Computation in ChE Courses

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2005 Annual Conference

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Michael Elly; Mordechai Shacham; Michael Cutlip

Combining Numerical Problem Solving with Access to Physical Property Data – a New Paradigm in ChE Education Michael B. Cutlip, Mordechai Shacham, and Michael Elly Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA /Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer- Sheva 84105, Israel /Intel Corp., Qiryat Gat, Israel and Portland, ORAbstractProblem solving is an essential part of engineering education, and many educational benefits canbe derived when solving realistic problems. The use of realistic problems has been hindered, sofar, by the difficulty of finding reliable and consistent property data. We have developed a newapproach

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarangi Parikh; Joel Esposito; Robert DeMoyer; Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

) and asks the student to develop a transfer function, state spacemodel or simulation. However, the final question in each assignment asks students to develop such aschematic on their own. An example, in the case of mechanical translational systems, follows. Think of an everyday device, not discussed in detail during lecture, which is a Mechanical Translational system. a. Make a sketch of the system. b. Write a sentence describing what it does. c. Draw a schematic representation of the system’s model using masses, springs or dampers. d. Add a coordinate system and label the nodes. e. List any assumptions you made in constructing the model (e.g., you may have assumed something was massless

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Undergraduate Aerospace Labs/Design II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Francisco Aguiniga; Hector Estrada

= , 1 − υ LT υ TL υ LT ET Q12 = , 1 − υ LT υ TL ET Q22 = , 1 − υ LT υ TL Q66 = G LT , (a) (b) Figure 1: The State of Stress for a Lamina in the (a) Material and (b) General Directions. The stresses can be transformed from material (laminae L, T, & T’) coordinates to general(laminate x, y, & z) coordinates using

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Internet Computing and Networking

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2005 Annual Conference

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Leonid Preiser

Integrating Web-Based Technologies and Knowledge Management Concepts in a Novel Online Model for Modern Education Leonid B. Preiser Department of Computer Science and Information Systems School of Engineering and Technology National University 11255 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037-1011 (858) 642-8483, fax (858) 642-8489IntroductionNew web-based technology breakthroughs and accelerated availability of wide-bandwidth tools andresources for preparing multimedia educational materials present a unique opportunity to boostacademic rigor and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster; Mohan Krishnan; Shuvra Das; Sandra Yost

) toaddress the need of industrial partners to have engineers educated in the principles andapplications of mechatronics, (b) to improve student competencies in communication skills,teamwork, and project management through the increased use of team-oriented, project-based,interdisciplinary approaches to instruction in mechatronics, (c) to increase in engineeringstudents an appreciation for lifelong learning by delivering instruction in mechatronics to thispopulation, and (d) to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities inengineering by engaging the freshmen and pre-college populations in hands-on instruction insensors and actuators.To achieve these goals, a number of activities are planned. Two new courses in

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

vehicle can be operated under normal circumstanceswithout fear of accidentally damaging vital components or affecting the vehicle’s overallperformance. 3. IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM Each pixel in each captured image contains information in the form of three 8-bit binarynumbers for red, green, and blue (R p , G p , B p ) . One way to characterize each pixel graphically is tocreate a color vector in 3-dimensional space with pure red, pure green, and pure blue as orthogonalaxes. Figure 3.1 illustrates such a color box where one can draw color vectors for pixels. Themagnitude of this color vector represents the overall brightness of the pixel and the direction of thevector represents the relative color in the